Aids Benefit To Have Broadway Beat

February 23, 1994|By TIM SMITH Music Writer

The Comprehensive AIDS Program of Palm Beach County and the Greater Palm Beach Symphony will follow up on last year's all-Gershwin gala with another fund-raising concert. This one, at 8 p.m. Monday at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, will be devoted to the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

John Covelli will conduct the concert, which features three vocal soloists, the Palm Beach Atlantic College Oratorio Choir and the Choral Society of the Palm Beaches. (This is the Greater Palm Beach Symphony's only concert of the season; financial difficulties forced a cutback of activities.) The soloists will be baritone Keith Buterbaugh, who sang in the Broadway and touring productions of Phantom of the Opera (including the inaugural Broward Center season); tenor Donn Cook, a Lyric Opera of Chicago regular who also has Phantom credits; and soprano Pamela Hinchman, whose sensitive singing was an asset at the New World Symphony's 1992 performance of Handel's Messiah.

Songs from Oklahoma, South Pacific, Carousel, The King and I and The Sound of Music will by performed. Orchestral selections from Rodgers' Slaughter on Tenth Avenue and Victory at Sea also are on the program.

Tickets are $35 and $50. Tickets for patrons ($100) and benefactors ($250, with supper after the concert) also are available. Proceeds will benefit the Comprehensive AIDS Program, which provides testing, counseling, transportation and other services to more than 1,200 HIV-positive children and adults.

For tickets, call 1-407-687-3400c.

Music at St. Paul's

The concert series at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 188 S. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach, continues at 4 p.m. Sunday with another interesting program put together by music director Stuart Gardner.

The Pro Arte Chamber Ensemble will perform Elgar's Sospiri, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, with Florida Philharmonic clarinetist David Pharris. He and Gardner also will perform Canticle for clarinet and organ by Charles Callahan, a professor at Rollins College in Winter Park.

A $5 donation is requested. Call 1-407-278-3351.

Clarinet, piano and art

Clarinetist Paul Green, an artist-faculty member at Boca Raton's Harid Conservatory, will give a recital of 20th century American music at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Center for the Fine Arts in Miami. Green will perform For an Actor: A Monologue for Clarinet by Israeli-born Shulamit Ran; Thought Song, described as the "dream of a Hassidic man," written for Green by Bruce Adolphe; Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski; works by Villa-Lobos; and arrangements of Brazilian folk songs. The clarinetist will be accompanied by pianist Roberta Rust, another Harid teacher.

Green will discuss the relationship between the music and art currently on exhibit at the center. Tickets are $5. The center is at 101 W. Flagler St., Miami. Call 1-305-375-1727.

Tokyo Quartet

The distinguished Tokyo String Quartet will be presented by Miami's Friends of Chamber Music at 8:15 p.m. Thursday at Gusman Concert Hall at the University of Miami in Coral Gables (not the Lincoln Theatre in Miami Beach, as listed in last week's Showtime). The program offers works by Haydn (Op. 64, No. 5), Dvorak (the American) and Beethoven (Op. 127). Tickets are $17.50. Call 1-305-372-2975.